I dealt with dysphoria yesterday because of my weight. I still have ways to go before I reach my weight loss goal (150-170). It makes feel depress that it will take months before I reach my goal. I don't want my bad thoughts to get to me and give up.

It's tough, but it's good that you're trying to reach your goals. Each day you keep at it is, if nothing else, a victory over the you that would want to quit. Stick with it! We're rooting for you!

Are we talking about pounds or kilograms? Anyways, good luck mate, any self-improvement goal is a goal worth pursuing.

I'll tell you this right now as someone who's dealt with it a lot and been with partners who have had to deal with it.

Calories in. Calories out.

As long as you eat less than what your body burns, it is an objective truth that you will lose weight. You have to have serious health issues for this to be false.

If you are not losing weight you are simply eating more than you'd like to admit and you have to be willing to cut that out of your life.

It is so much easier said than done but trust me you will feel unbelievably happy and amazing. Hang in there. Fuck the bad habits. You are going through a change in your life as it is - a new diet is nothing in comparison. You fucking got this shit.

Thanks guys. It does make feel better to know that I have people on my side that support me ;)

Pounds. I have been overweight for most of my life because of depression, and they would also put me on terrible meds when I was a kid.

Well, I just posted the first chapter of my first-ever fanfic on AO3. Don't even care if nobody reads it, or if I ever finish it, I can say I actually posted something now.

I know the feeling. I come from a family of big folks and I was on so many different meds when I was younger that I wouldn't doubt that they did something to me. I need to start walking a lot more... which would be a lot easier if I weren't surrounded by blind curves and no sidewalks.

Imo, you should care about finishing it! Sticking with something to completion is incredibly empowering. One of the most substantial "motivational quotes" I've ever read was the dubious:

Real artists ship

I think it's credited to Steve Jobs or something, but the author doesn't matter. I work in a very creative industry and the amount of times I've heard about ideas that never materialized is mind blowing. But that's probably no surprise. But next to that is ideas that got one foot out the door and never went anywhere.

The first step is hard, no doubt, but making the first step also has the adverse effect of convincing us that we are capable of doing something - rather than actually doing something. Because we get validation from exposure and an early sense of accomplishment. There's a lot of discourse over just starting a thing, but few people talk about what its like to sustain a thing and keep motivated, which is a thousand times more important in an age when getting to the first step is more accessible than every.

I hope you don't think that diminishes your current accomplishments. I just want to say stick to it and go for completion! It will feel exponentially greater.

Well, call me old-fashioned, but knowing something about it might help generate interest from the forum.

Another one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_st0mFyyR3I

Missed opportunity not having Saber's' fusion partner be Blade.